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Suffragettes of the Empire, Daughters of the Republic: Women Auto/biographers Narrate National History (1918-1935)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Hülya Adak
Hülya Adak*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey, hadak@sabanciuniv.edu
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Abstract

This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the undomestic, professional self at the expense of the private. Ironically, even if the autobiographers in question were politically active in suffrage, women's autobiographies either do not represent the authors' involvement in such campaigns, or praise state feminism for granting emancipation. “Personal is political” only becomes a maxim for a later generation of women writers, with autobiographies and autobiographical novels of the post-1970 period underscoring the importance of exploring the subjectivity of the adult woman/narrator. More recent examples of auto/biographical writing blur the boundaries between private and public and narrate gendered accounts of republican history.

Keywords

women's autobiographiessuffragewomen's biographiesrepublican reformsrepublican history
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 36: Special Issue on Literature and the Nation , Spring 2007 , pp. 27 - 51
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2007

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